Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Our week visit with the family zipped by so quickly..and here we are on to the next destination.

Pittsburgh, Pa

We are bringing Colin back for his follow up appointment with his surgeon and he will go back to his apartment. He needs to work again and is looking for a good bartending job in the area..If you happen to know of any..give me a shout.

After our two day stint in PA, we return to NC and our Homey.

We will stay there to celebrate New Years and then head our wheels south.

Thursday, December 15, 2011

A few days ago I had a blog scare. I went to log onto my blog and the browser said that Dawns bloggy blog does not exist. I had Jeff try to get to my blog and he had the same message..

Ugh…my heart started racing..My travelogue gone?

I quickly wrote an email to Blogspot and Google. I noticed Google has been going thru some changes lately and thought it could be related to that.

I tried signing into Google and got a message about suspicious activity. I then had to go thru a sign in process which included them calling my phone number and giving me a code in order to get back to Google. Long story short. My blog magically appeared again.

Then I started toying with keeping another back-up of my blog at Wordpress.com

I imported my blog there and played around with templates.

I wanted to keep my birdie and the brown background..make it similar but a different look than what I have now.

I also played around with Blogspot templates on my Template testing blog to see what I could come up with.

I don’t know if I want to switch to Wordpress…

I know those who use it love it. In order to have better control over themes etc. you really need to have a Wordpress.org account. From what I understand that means having the blog hosted and other yearly fees…something I didn’t want to do for my little blog.

I am not sure about Wordpress.com, I think there is a limited amount of storage for photos etc. then you pay for extra storage. I am paying 5 dollars a year storage for my current blog.

I also think that there is advertising inserted in Wordpress.com accounts.

Any wordpress lovers out there please chime in.

Anyway..

I have come up with two other templates.

They are not finished.

I will have more in the sidebars~similar to what I have here at this blog.

Let me know what you like the best.

Click on the Links to get a better feel for each template and let me know what you think.

1-Current blog

I have started to add link pages up top to get rid of some of my sidebar clutter.

“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.” John Muir

"On the road again Just can't wait to get on the road again The life I love is makin' music with my friends And I can't wait to get on the road again On the road again Goin' places that I've never been Seein' things that I may never see again, And I can't wait to get on the road again."

Willie Nelson

Come join me at the festival!

Dawn Fine

Jeff and I have
been Full time Motor-homing since 2001~When and where we will settle down is still a mystery to us. But
for now the nomadic lifestyle is great. We love hiking, birding,
mushrooming, shelling, rocking, and hanging out in the great outdoors
and spending time with family and friends...If you happen to be in the
same area as us..give us a shout..we would love to bird..hike enjoy the
great outdoors and have adventures with you.
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